Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong

From the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, the second myth-busting history book which focuses on the inaccuracies, myths, and lies that can be found at national landmarks and historical sites all across America.

In Lies Across America, James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning Lies My Teacher Told Me, of overturning the myths and misinformation that too often pass for American history. This is a one-of-a-kind examination of sites all over the country where history is literally written on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, historic houses, forts, and ships. With entries drawn from each of the fifty states, Loewen reveals that:

The USS Intrepid, the “feel-good” war museum, celebrates its glorious service in World War II but nowhere mentions the three tours it served in Vietnam.

The Jefferson Memorial misquotes from the Declaration of Independence and skews Jefferson’s writings to present this conflicted slave owner as a near abolitionist.

Abraham Lincoln had been dead for thirty years when his birthplace cabin was built.

Lies Across America is a reality check for anyone who has ever sought to learn about America through the nation’s public sites and markers. Entertaining and enlightening, it is destined to change the way American readers see their country.

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In Lies Across America, James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning Lies My Teacher Told Me, of overturning the myths and misinformation that too often pass for American history. This is a one-of-a-kind examination of sites all over the country where history is literally written on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, historic houses, forts, and ships. With entries drawn from each of the fifty states, Loewen reveals that:

The USS Intrepid, the "feel-good" war museum, celebrates its glorious service in World War II but nowhere mentions the three tours it served in Vietnam.

The Jefferson Memorial misquotes from the Declaration of Independence and skews Jefferson's writings to present this conflicted slave owner as a near abolitionist.

Abraham Lincoln had been dead for thirty years when his birthplace cabin was built.

Lies Across America is a realty check for anyone who has ever sought to learn about America through the nation's public sites and markers. Entertaining and enlightening, it is destined to change the way American readers see their country.
About the Author:

James W. Loewen is the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me and Lies Across America. He is a regular contributor to the History Channel's History magazine and is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont. He resides in Washington, D.C.

Book Description Touchstone, 2007. Book Condition: New. Brand New, Unread Copy in Perfect Condition. A+ Customer Service! Summary: Contents In What Ways Were We Warped?Some Functions of Public HistoryThe Sociology of Historic SitesHistoric Sites Are Always a Tale of Two ErasHieratic Scale in Historic MonumentsThe Far West1 AlaskaDenali (Mt. McKinley):The Tallest Mountain -- The Silliest Naming2 HawaiiHonolulu:King Kamehameha I, TheRoman!3 CaliforniaSacramento:The Flat Earth Myth on the West Coast4 CaliforniaSacramento:Exploiting vs. Exterminating the Natives5 CaliforniaSan Francisco:China Beach Leaves Out the Bad Parts6 CaliforniaDownieville:Killing a Man Is Not News7 OregonLa Grande:Don't "Discover" 'Til You See the Eyes of the Whites!8 WashingtonCowlitz County:No Communists Here!9 WashingtonCentralia:Using Nationalism to Redefine a Troublesome Statue10 NevadaHickison Summit:What We Know and What We Don't Know About Rock Art11 NevadaNye County:Don't Criticize Big BrotherThe Mountains12 IdahoAlmo:Circle the Wagons, Boys -- It's Tourist Season13 UtahNorth of St. George:Bad Things Happen in the Passive Voice14 ArizonaNavajo Reservation:Calling Native Americans Bad Names15 MontanaHelena:No Confederate Dead? No Problem! Invent Them!16 WyomingSouth Pass City:A WomanShouldaDone It!17 ColoradoPagosa Springs:Tall Tales in the West18 ColoradoLeadville:Licking the Corporate Hand That Feeds You19 New MexicoAlcalde:The Footloose StatueThe Great Plains20 OklahomaOklahoma City:The Oklahoma State History Museum Confederate Room Tells No History21 KansasGardner:Which Came First, Wilderness or Civilization?22 NebraskaRed Cloud:No Lesbians on the Landscape23 South DakotaBrookings:American Indians Only Roved for About a Hundred Years24 North DakotaDevils Lake:The Devil Is Winning, Six to OneThe Midwest25 MinnesotaSt. Paul:"Serving the Cause of Humanity"26 IowaMuscatine:Red Men Only -- No Indians Allowed27 MissouriHannibal:Domesticating Mark Twain28 WisconsinRacine:Not the First Auto29 IllinoisChicago:America's Most Toppled Monument30 IndianaGraysville:Coming into Indiana Minus a Body Part31 IndianaIndianapolis:The Invisible Empire Remains Invisible32 KentuckyLexington:Putting the He in Hero33 KentuckyHodgenville:Abraham Lincoln's Birthplace Cabin -- Built Thirty Years after His Death!34 MichiganDearborn:Honoring a Segregationist35 OhioDelaware:Who Menaced Whom?The South36 TexasGainesville:"No Nation Rose So White and Fair; None Fell So Free of Crime"37 TexasAlba:The Only Honest Sundown Town in the United States38 TexasPittsburg:It Never Got Off the Ground39 TexasFredericksburg:The Real War Will Never Get into the War Museums40 TexasGalveston:This Building Used to Be a Hardware Store41 ArkansasGrant County:Which Came First, the Statue or the Oppression?42 ArkansasLittle Rock:Men Make History; Women Make Wives43 LouisianaLaplace:Suppressing a Slave Revolt for the Second Time44 LouisianaColfax:Mystifying the Colfax Riot and Lying About Reconstruction45 LouisianaNew Orleans:The White League Begins to Take a Beating46 LouisianaBaton Rouge:The Toppled "Darky"47 LouisianaFort Jackson:Let Us Now Praise Famous Thieves48 MississippiHazlehurst:The End of Reconstruction49 MississippiItta Bena:A Black College Celebrates White Racists50 AlabamaCalhoun County:If Russia Can Do It, Why Can't We?51 AlabamaTuscumbia:Confining Helen Keller Under House Arrest52 AlabamaScottsboro:Famous Everywhere but at Home53 Tenn. Bookseller Inventory # ABE_book_new_074329629X

Book Description Touchstone. PAPERBACK. Book Condition: New. 074329629X Examines more than one hundred sites that promote incorrect interpretations of American history and raises questions about what Americans choose to commemorate. Originally published as Lies Across America. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. Bookseller Inventory # 4302495

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Book Description Touchstone Books, United States, 2007. Paperback. Book Condition: New. Reprint. 231 x 155 mm. Language: English Brand New Book. From the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, the second myth-busting history book which focuses on the inaccuracies, myths, and lies that can be found at national landmarks and historical sites all across America. In Lies Across America, James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning Lies My Teacher Told Me, of overturning the myths and misinformation that too often pass for American history. This is a one-of-a-kind examination of sites all over the country where history is literally written on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, historic houses, forts, and ships. With entries drawn from each of the fifty states, Loewen reveals that: The USS Intrepid, the feel-good war museum, celebrates its glorious service in World War II but nowhere mentions the three tours it served in Vietnam. The Jefferson Memorial misquotes from the Declaration of Independence and skews Jefferson s writings to present this conflicted slave owner as a near abolitionist. Abraham Lincoln had been dead for thirty years when his birthplace cabin was built. Lies Across America is a reality check for anyone who has ever sought to learn about America through the nation s public sites and markers. Entertaining and enlightening, it is destined to change the way American readers see their country. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780743296298

Book Description Paperback. Book Condition: New. 161mm x 29mm x 233mm. Paperback. In "Lies Across America," James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning Lies My Teacher Told Me, of overturning the myths and misinformation that too often pa.Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. 449 pages. 0.508. Bookseller Inventory # 9780743296298